Sunlight Finds You

BY lAURA mORIARTY

A forbidden love blows open the world of a young woman, altering the trajectory of her life.

Postwar America is a time of rigid social rules. But when effervescent, seventeen-year-old Nora moves to Florida, she finds paradise-especially after she meets and wins over shy, brilliant Leonard. His mother is welcoming, but his father is suspicious of Nora and her lower-class family.

When coerced into breaking off all contact with Leonard, Nora makes a decision that exiles her from the family she loves, and sets off a chain of secrets and betrayals that will follow her for years.

Laura Moriarty's Sunlight Finds You explores ideas about family, female desire, sexism, motherhood and prejudice. It's about our capacity to forgive-ourselves and others-and about finding happiness by refusing to settle for a life that is less than full.

Text Publishing, 2026